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Weaning

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BLW a Bottle fed baby

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Nicki10 · 03/02/2008 17:05

Hi my little girl is 19 weeks and I intend to do baby lead weaning from the beginning but she is bottle fed. I recently spoke to someone and they said that it has only really been tried out on breast fed babies for fear that a bottle feed baby will over feed itself.

Does anyone have any advice on this? She is not a big feeder anyway and only takes as much as she wants which is rarely even 6ozs.

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Lulumama · 03/02/2008 17:10

Aitch wrote this blog www.babyledweaning.com she is a bit of an expert on BLW and had a bottle fed baby !

i bottle fed and DD did BLW after a bad start with purees.

certainly never over fed

suwoo · 03/02/2008 17:11

I have done BLW too from the outset, my DS is bottle fed and moderates his own appetite perfectly.

AitchTwoOh · 03/02/2008 17:12

please don't give it another thought. the research (which was teensy anyway) was done on BF babies, so that's why the guidelines say that it's suitable for bf babies. however, Gill Rapley, who is a good egg and the woman behind BLW, came on my blog and said that there was no reason why it wouldn't work for ffers. have a look, it's rigth at the bottom after my rant on the subject

Lulumama · 03/02/2008 17:14

TBH, i have yet to meet a formula fed baby who is overfed and genuinely overweight as a baby/child

colditz · 03/02/2008 17:16

Bottlefed babies don't overfeed themselves, it's a myth (I suspect). Mine certainly don't overfeed themselves.

I kind of BLW ds2, and it worked well.

AitchTwoOh · 03/02/2008 17:17

dunno, lulu, remember that bringing up baby programme where the weirdy twin parents were double-dosing them and twisting the bottles in their mouths to stop them sleeping? i'm sure that's screwing up all sorts of natural satiety signals.

Lulumama · 03/02/2008 17:19

that is true aitch, but in RL, i have not found this. babies either bring the feed back up or spit the teat out. perhaps it stems back to the days of putting rice or whatever in the bottle to get babies sleeping through? that would put weight on a young baby?

AitchTwoOh · 03/02/2008 17:22

oh completely, there was No Way i could have got extra into dd i think, but then i wasn't prepared to go to the lunatic and cruel lengths that those silly arses went to.

curlywurlycremeegg · 03/02/2008 17:24

I have to say as a m/w I have seen plently of parents do the "twisting bottle" to encourage their babies to feed more "because the midwife/health visitor/best freind/back of the milk pack says they should be taking so many oz

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Nicki10 · 03/02/2008 17:25

Im so pleased you have said this. I have my own issues with me not being able to have breast fed her without people now telling me she won't wean properly because of it!.

She is 19 weeks and always sits in her tripp trapp with us for our dinner and looks so eagerly at everything that goes in her mouth, when do you think we can start giving her finger foods to play with?. I was desperate to give her a carrot today!

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AitchTwoOh · 03/02/2008 17:30

blimey curly, it looked to wrong... you must have to bite your lip A Lot.

nik, seriously, read my rant on the bfing thing that i linked to, i think you might get it. and 19 weeks... well, blah blah blah you're her mother blah blah blah you know the guideline is 6 months blah blah blah... i would wait a bit longer if it were me. she doesn't know what a carrot even is yet. plus, BLW is fun etc but weaning is still a royal pain in the backside compared to easypeasy bottles.

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Nicki10 · 03/02/2008 17:43

I have just read your rant and I love it!.

My friend went to the BLW meeting in Wagamamas at Victoria and she was asking about me and said that Gill would like to use Poppy as research which I would be pleased about to show how it can work just as effectively for FF as BF, and to prove once and for all that we are not harming our children by FF!.

I too still feel bad and embarressed when I pull a bottle out in public!.

You are right it is easier to just use bottles and theres no going back once you start weaning!. But it's just so exciting and fun!.

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AitchTwoOh · 03/02/2008 17:45

i think that was some off the girls off my forum, nicki. glad you liked my moan...

curlywurlycremeegg · 03/02/2008 18:04

Aitch, never one to hold my tongue, I tell it like it is, after all that's my job and my responsibility

I agree so much with holding off the weaning, DS2 has just really started to take food at 10 months, just couldn't be faffed with all the sorting out food, despite the fact that I was still making meals for DD....actually I think it was the clearing up afterwards that was putting me off. But it literally took days for him to get going once it was introduced, he was obviously ready at that point and was wolfing down three maels a day plus snack in no time at all

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